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They are part of old English measurements.

Pecks are an old English measurement for dry mass ie flour or grain or Liquid. It is equivalent to 8 quarts . The American peck is slightly different due to the difference in quarts size in comparison to the imperial quart. Look at PECK in the Encyclopedia Britannica online for a full write up

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